[84] The Bo-tree. See suprà, p. 18.
[85] Probably the fruit is really intended. Higgins refers to “a peculiar property which the fig has of producing its fruit from its flowers, contained within its own bosom, and concealed from profane eyes,” as a reason why the leaves of the fig-tree were selected by Adam and Eve to cover their nakedness. Anacalypsis, vol. ii., p. 253.
[86] Hardwicke’s “Christ and other Masters,” vol. i., p. 305-6.
[87] Mr. Hardwicke states that the sacred Indian fig is endowed by the Brahmans and Buddhists with mysterious significance, as the tree of knowledge or intelligence.
[88] See Beausobre’s curious and learned work, “Histoire de Manichée et du Manichéisme,” Liv. vii., ch. iii.; Gibbon’s “Fall and Decline of the Roman Empire,” vol. ii., p. 186.
[89] As already suggested, these may be the ish and isha of Genesis.
[90] Lajard, “Le culte de Mithra,” p. 52.
[91] Ditto, p. 60.
[92] This is shown by Mr. Gerald Massey in his remarkable work, “The Natural Genesis,” and particularly the chapter entitled “Typology of the Fall in Heaven and on Earth.”
[93] Lajard, op. cit., p. 49.